† seghn.

Origin: A borrowing from Irish. Etymon: Irish segh.

Etymology: < Irish †segh (see note; Early Irish séd, ség deer), probably cognate with Welsh hydd stag, further etymology uncertain.Whitaker (see quot. 1771 and his note in the same source) took the word from the Irish glossary in E. Llwyd Archaeologia Britannica (1707), at segh (where it is already marked as obsolete), believing that the Irish word, glossed by Llwyd as ‘ox’, ‘buffalo’, and ‘hind of the moose kind’, originally denoted the Irish elk. Llwyd's glosses appear to be mostly based on Early Irish evidence (with the exception of a glossary of 1643, itself based on Early Irish sources); the underlying Early Irish glosses all denote kinds of deer, although some of them are related to words for bovines. The word was misprinted as legh in T. West Antiq. Furness, a form taken up by some later writers (see legh n. and compare quot. 1805).

Obsolete.

The exinct Irish elk, Megaloceros giganteus.Frequently confused with the elk or moose, Alces alces.

ΚΠ

1771 J. Whitaker Hist. Manch. I. x. 340 That could have been only the British Segh or Moose.

1793 R. Polwhele Hist. Views Devonshire I. 204 The segh, now lost in Britain and in Europe, but subsisting in the moose of America, was often hunted in the forests of Devonshire.

1798 J. Feltham Tour Island of Mann 205 A peculiar white marl is dug here, in which the skeletons of elks or seghs, have been occasionally discovered. The horns measure nine feet from tip to tip.

1805 W. Close West's Antiq. Furness (new ed.) 41 That the segh was a native of Furness, is evident from the heads of those animals frequently found in Furness.

1823 R. Surtees Hist. Durham III. 21 In digging a small pond at the Southern base of the hill, a pair of huge antlers belonging to the segh-deer were found bedded in the clay.

1860 M. E. C. Walcott Guide Mountains, Lakes & North-west Coast Eng. 17 Red deer are still found in Martindale. The horns of the segh deer were found at Duddon sands in 1766.

1861 J. T. Blight Week at Land's End vii. 210 The moose, which they called the segh, or savage deer, was hunted by powerful dogs; these were the large southern hounds, hence called ‘segh-dogs’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	segh
释义	† seghn. Origin: A borrowing from Irish. Etymon: Irish segh. Etymology: < Irish †segh (see note; Early Irish séd, ség deer), probably cognate with Welsh hydd stag, further etymology uncertain.Whitaker (see quot. 1771 and his note in the same source) took the word from the Irish glossary in E. Llwyd Archaeologia Britannica (1707), at segh (where it is already marked as obsolete), believing that the Irish word, glossed by Llwyd as ‘ox’, ‘buffalo’, and ‘hind of the moose kind’, originally denoted the Irish elk. Llwyd's glosses appear to be mostly based on Early Irish evidence (with the exception of a glossary of 1643, itself based on Early Irish sources); the underlying Early Irish glosses all denote kinds of deer, although some of them are related to words for bovines. The word was misprinted as legh in T. West Antiq. Furness, a form taken up by some later writers (see legh n. and compare quot. 1805). Obsolete. The exinct Irish elk, Megaloceros giganteus.Frequently confused with the elk or moose, Alces alces. ΚΠ 1771 J. Whitaker Hist. Manch. I. x. 340 That could have been only the British Segh or Moose. 1793 R. Polwhele Hist. Views Devonshire I. 204 The segh, now lost in Britain and in Europe, but subsisting in the moose of America, was often hunted in the forests of Devonshire. 1798 J. Feltham Tour Island of Mann 205 A peculiar white marl is dug here, in which the skeletons of elks or seghs, have been occasionally discovered. The horns measure nine feet from tip to tip. 1805 W. Close West's Antiq. Furness (new ed.) 41 That the segh was a native of Furness, is evident from the heads of those animals frequently found in Furness. 1823 R. Surtees Hist. Durham III. 21 In digging a small pond at the Southern base of the hill, a pair of huge antlers belonging to the segh-deer were found bedded in the clay. 1860 M. E. C. Walcott Guide Mountains, Lakes & North-west Coast Eng. 17 Red deer are still found in Martindale. The horns of the segh deer were found at Duddon sands in 1766. 1861 J. T. Blight Week at Land's End vii. 210 The moose, which they called the segh, or savage deer, was hunted by powerful dogs; these were the large southern hounds, hence called ‘segh-dogs’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1771
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